Mystery64: Welcome back readers, I hope you're all enjoying this story so far. Sorry this took so long to post, but it's here at last.
Chance: Why must you always have bad and weird things happen to us in your stories?
Mystery64: Because than Kairi wouldn't have a large role along with you guys. Also if I wasn't creative, these stories wouldn't even exist.
Jake: Why'd you have her go and wreck the Turbokat in the last chapter?
Mystery64: She was the only one conscious, you two were knocked out of the game…I wanted to add a little humor, I mean she can't fly for shit. (Gets bricked by Kairi)
Kairi: How's that for can't fly for shit?!
Mystery64: (On the floor in a bloody mess surrounded by bricks): Any who…let's get on with the story. Chapter contains talk of hallucinogenic images.
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CHAPTER 4.
Chance and Jake sat on the couch watching the 5:00 news silently in deep thought. Being in each other's bodies felt so awkward and weird, it was like they both stepped into the twilight zone.
"You what Chance." Jake spoke.
"What?" Chance replied.
"Of all the weird and whacked out things we've faced over our SWAT Kat years, I think this tops it off as the weirdest and most whacked out thing ever."
"I agree with you on that buddy."
The scene of Ann Gora in the lab along with some investigating police appeared on the TV.
"The employees of Pumadyne informed that nothing was stolen from this lab. However the police found the remains of this gadget." Ann announced.
The image of the familiar pile of wires and metal appeared on the screen catching the attention of the two mechanics.
"Hey, wasn't that the gizmo thing that Hard Drive tried to steal last night?" Chance questioned.
"Seems to look like it." Jake replied.
They heard footsteps coming into the room and glanced over at Kairi now wearing sweatpants and a tank top.
"Hey look who finally got up." Jake said.
"How you feeling Kai?" Chance asked.
"Ooh. My head still hurts, I still feel tipsy, and I think I just saw the Tacobell dog run past the garage door while shaking a pair of maracas." Kairi said.
The two kats looked at each other with weird expressions while trying not to laugh.
"You'd better not be finding that funny!" The girl snapped.
"Honest to god we're not." Chance said.
"Good, because it's not funny at all!"
Kairi took a seat at the table still compressing the icepack on her head.
"So, what do we do about this situation?" She wondered aloud.
"Well the only way for me and Chance to switch back is to use that machine from Pumadyne, but we don't know what it looks like. Did you get a look at some big machine while you were going fist to fist with Hard Drive?" Jake said.
"Well, I did see something, but I can't remember a thing from last night." Kairi said.
"I might have known you would say that." Chance said.
"Damn, I'm sorry I got you both into this mess." The girl unnecessarily apologized.
"It's not your fault Kairi, we've always had bad luck at Pumadyne long before you came here. That place is a psycho magnet that attracts evil wackos." Chance replied.
"Besides, we'll need to live with the swap until your concussion clears up. There's no need for you to worry about anything, Chance and I will handle it." Jake said.
"Speaking of which, don't get too pissed. Did you both happen to get a look at the Turbokat when you came to?" Kairi asked.
Both kat's faces went blank at her question.
"Yes…as a matter of fact we did." Chance said coolly.
"Oh shit I am so double sorry for that, but what choice did I have? You two got knocked out and there was no one else to fly it back home."
"Don't apologize, that usually happens every single day of the week. Looks like I'm going to have to fix it again." Jake said calmly.
He got 'his' tail off the couch and headed to the trap door.
"Hey while you're down there, can you tell Mario to stop doing the Macarena in the toilet? It's making a wet mess." Kairi added.
Chance put 'his' hands over 'his' mouth trying to contain his laughter.
"You find something funny with that furry boy?!" The girl snapped.
"N-No." The kat said muffled by 'his' hands.
"This is not funny to me or anyone else who gets hit in the head hard! I had a cousin who got hit in the head with a steel bat and he started seeing Rob Zombie in his refrigerator!"
Chance felt 'his' sides hurt from holding in the laughter, he began to lose his hold but wouldn't let it out.
"If you're going to laugh, I might as well be somewhere else!" Kairi said disgusted and angry.
The mechanic suddenly felt the laughter disappear at the tone of the girl's voice.
"Kairi wait I"
But it was too late, Kairi had already left the room.
"SHIT! SHIT SHIT SHIT!! Why do I have to be so stupid?!" Chance thought angrily.
"But what's the point anyway? Being Jake, it's going to be a lot harder telling her what I really feel about her. She's going to find it too awkward to hear that coming from Jake when it's really me saying it. DAMN SHIT!!"
Chance punched the wall so hard it hurt 'his' hand wicked bad, he withdrew it and shook off the pain.
"And being Jake, cracking the wall with one punch isn't easy anymore."
Meanwhile, Kairi was in her room blowing off some steam by working on her Sky Board.
"The nerve of that kat! Immature jerk off! He should damn well know that concussions are not funny at all, especially when it's the victim who's suffering!" She said angrily to herself.
The small bolt she was tightening suddenly broke in half and Kairi ragingly flung the wrench into the wall and embedded to the spot. The young girl took a long hard stare at the wrench sticking out of the wall and heaved a heavy sigh.
"Maybe I should lay off Chance, he is going through the most awkward situation of his life. And maybe I shouldn't have been such a bitch."
Kairi set the board and tools on the floor and gently laid down on her bed staring at the ceiling for a good long hour before a knock was heard.
"Come in, the door's unlocked." She called.
At first Kairi was surprised that Jake came in, but soon realized that the kats swapped bodies due to her fumble.
"Oh, sorry Chance, I didn't recognize you without your real body." She said.
"Yeah, it's starting to get real confusing now." Chance replied sheepishly.
He came over and sat on the near edge of her bed.
"Look, I wanted to apologize for acting the way I did earlier. Sometimes I can be stupid and I'm sorry." Chance said.
"I understand Chance. I'm sorry I was being such a bitch. I get angry easily due to my past childhood occurrences, but I think you already know that." Kairi said.
"So, can we forget this whole incident never happened?"
"Deal."
Jake suddenly popped in all cover in black crud smelling like engine exhaust.
"Hey Chance get my butt out here, some damage was made to the exhaust tubes and there's something wedged in the landing gears." He said.
Chance got up and left the room to help his buddy. Kairi was glad that she and Chance sorted out their problem and the two mechanics didn't chew her out for damaging the Turbokat, but now she had to find a way to jog up her memory so Chance and Jake could switch back.
